On The Changed Opinions Since 1848 Of The Montreal Board Of Trade Respecting A Canal To Connect Lake Champlain With The St Lawrence Classic Reprint

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Download or read book Official Documents and Other Information Relating to the Improvement of the Ship Channel written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Official Documents and Other Information Relating to the Improvement of the Ship Channel: Between Montreal and Quebec The object in collecting and publishing the following documents and notes is to place before the public a connected account of the improvements in the ship channel of the St. Lawrence between Montreal and Quebec from the first attempts up to the present day. An endeavour has been made to give the facts as much as practicable in detail, with but little comment, further than that necessarily made in introducing the several documents. These have been placed in the order of time, except in cases where the sense or continuity is better preserved by a slight variation. The principal sources from which information has been obtained are the Library of Parliament at Ottawa, printed reports of the Harbour Commissioners and printed correspondence, all of which no doubt are fully reliable. All the information obtainable and directly connected with the improvements from their beginning up to the year 1850 is given in detail, as it is of great interest, and is not conveniently within the reach of the general public, being scattered through the journals of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada previously to 1841, and subsequently through the records of the Parliaments of the United Canadas. After the year 1850, at which date the Harbour Commissioners of Montreal were invested with the execution of the work, the information obtainable is fuller and better connected, being embodied in their reports and in the reports of the Department of Public Works. Of the period from 1850 to 1865, when the depth of 20 feet was attained, the account given here is not so much in detail as in the earlier stages, but sufficiently so to convey a clear account of the progress of the work. Since the renewal of operations in 1874, the work has been conducted on a much more extensive scale than formerly, and full reports, which may be obtained easily, have been issued annually. On this account, and in order to restrict the size of this pamphlet, only the main events in the history of the improvements since that time are given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.